The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking, Designed to Fill the Same Place in the Schools of the United States, that is Held in Those of Great Britain by the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and OthersRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, and Hilliard, Gray, LIttle, and Wilkins, 1827 - 276 páginas |
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... less qualified to act well our part , as citizens of a republic . Our country , both physically and morally , has a character of its own . Should not something of that character be learned by its children while at school ? Its mountains ...
... less qualified to act well our part , as citizens of a republic . Our country , both physically and morally , has a character of its own . Should not something of that character be learned by its children while at school ? Its mountains ...
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... less requisite for accomplish- ing the discoveries , which he had in view , than naval skill and an enterprising courage . Happily for himself , and for the country by which he was employed , he joined to the ardent temper and inventive ...
... less requisite for accomplish- ing the discoveries , which he had in view , than naval skill and an enterprising courage . Happily for himself , and for the country by which he was employed , he joined to the ardent temper and inventive ...
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... less amazed at the scene now before them . Every herb , and shrub , and tree , was differ- ent from those which flourished in Europe . The soil seem- ed to be rich , but bore few marks of cultivation . The cli- mate , even to Spaniards ...
... less amazed at the scene now before them . Every herb , and shrub , and tree , was differ- ent from those which flourished in Europe . The soil seem- ed to be rich , but bore few marks of cultivation . The cli- mate , even to Spaniards ...
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... less trouble and distress than he has on account of the idleness and inattention , of which too many of us are guilty . " His books he is careful to preserve from every thing that might injure them . Having finished his lesson , he puts ...
... less trouble and distress than he has on account of the idleness and inattention , of which too many of us are guilty . " His books he is careful to preserve from every thing that might injure them . Having finished his lesson , he puts ...
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... less with himself ; for he applied cheerfully to work ; and , in autumn , he had the pleasure of seeing his tree fully answer his hopes . Thus he had the double advantage of enriching himself with a splendid crop of fruit , and , at the ...
... less with himself ; for he applied cheerfully to work ; and , in autumn , he had the pleasure of seeing his tree fully answer his hopes . Thus he had the double advantage of enriching himself with a splendid crop of fruit , and , at the ...
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